word | bed |
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definition | noun A bed is a piece of furniture that you lie on when you sleep. She went into her bedroom and lay down on the bed. We finally went to bed at about 4am. By the time we got back from dinner, Nona was already in bed. When she had gone, Sam and Robina put the children to bed. If a place such as a hospital or a hotel has a particular number of beds, it is able to hold that number of patients or guests . A bed in a garden or park is an area of ground that has been specially prepared so that plants can be grown in it. The geraniums in the flower bed looked bedraggled from the heavy rain. ...beds of strawberries and rhubarb. A bed of shellfish or plants is an area in the sea or in a lake where a particular type of shellfish or plant is found in large quantities. Fishermen fear valuable oyster and mussel beds could be decimated. The whole lake was rimmed with thick beds of reeds. The sea bed or a river bed is the ground at the bottom of the sea or of a river. For three weeks a big operation went on to recover the wreckage from the sea bed. ...the bare bed of a dry stream. A bed of rock is a layer of rock that is found within a larger area of rock. Between the white limestone and the greyish pink limestone is a thin bed of clay. ...a sandstone bed. If a recipe or a menu says that something is served on a bed of a food such as rice or vegetables, it means it is served on a layer of that food. Heat the curry thoroughly and serve it on a bed of rice. |
inflections | bedsbeddingbedded |
cefr-level | A1 |
Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:a1
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